Quick Boot A USB or CD/DVD Directly From the Boot Menu

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <i><img src="http://www.deskdecode.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vmi_boot_menu.png" /></i><br /> <i><br /></i> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <i>I know this time you might wanna to boot something on your computer and the quickies way to boot something is doing it by boot menu. Boot menu is the quick boot selection screen which can give you the one time boot selection option for the device what you want to boot and it’s either be a bootable USB or a CD-ROM<code style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 1em; padding: 2px 6px; position: relative; top: -1px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7305797917081727" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="1052560294" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 60px; text-decoration: none;"><ins id="aswift_0_expand" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; height: 60px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; width: 696px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 60px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; width: 696px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="60" hspace="0" id="aswift_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_0" scrolling="no" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="696"></iframe><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">By the boot menu booting made easy for you, by using this you’ll don’t need to make changes in your computers bios setting to make it boot something. If you want to install windows from your Pendrive or DVD, or want to boot some software to use, the boot menu will make it more easier for you and in this tutorial I’m gonna show you how to do that.</span></ins></ins></ins></code></i></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <i>Using boot menu is very easy and anyone can use it, you’ll just need to press an assign keyboard key and that will open the boot menu only when the computer starts. Normally the first boot screen will give you the instruction like a key name to open it or either you can try some default keys to open it. If the boot screen didn’t show you something then you can try these key one by one to open the boot menu. The keys are <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Esc, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11 and F12</span> you can try these keys one at a time by pressing it again and again after the 2 sec of your system starts and if the key is correct your boot menu will open.</i></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <i>Try the <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">F10, 11, 12</span> first because it will assign most for the menu. Sometimes the <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Esc</span> key will take you to the menu where use can select the item what you wanna to open like bios, boot menu, memory test etc. I means you can try that one too if your computer have that one.</i></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <img alt="" src="http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q627/deskdecode/Quick%20Boot%20A%20USB%20or%20DVD%20Directly%20From%20the%20Boot/bios-boot-menu-message_zpsjdm0bbpu.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 21px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <i>By using the above keys now I think you are in the boot menu and in this menu you are seeing all of your Hard Drive, Cd or DVD Drives and Your Pendrive or whatever the storage device you’ve connected to it. Now you can easily select the drive what you want to boot from to make it work.</i></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <i>If you are wanted to boot from your pen drive or your flash drive, you can do it by just selecting the drive into it or if want to boot from your DVD drive then you’ll also need to do the same too. Just select the item by the use of your keyboard’s aero key and hit enter and that’s it.</i></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <img alt="" src="http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q627/deskdecode/Quick%20Boot%20A%20USB%20or%20DVD%20Directly%20From%20the%20Boot/vmi_boot_menu_zpso9kytkjx.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 21px; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <i>If your computer doesn’t supports the boot menus then you can also configure the boot sequence by yourself in the bios setting to boot something. Here’s a link which will help you with:</i></div> </div>

Quick Boot A USB or CD/DVD Directly From the Boot Menu

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How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c2ce075739.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.6RvsYh8sYS.jpg" /><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Before you decide to upgrade your computer, you might want to decide <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/223634/should-you-upgrade-to-windows-10/" style="color: #114491;">whether or not you actually want to install Windows 10</a>. It’s not necessarily right for everybody — there are still bugs and issues, and we really recommend that people hold off for a few weeks.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> You should <span style="font-weight: 600;">not</span> install Windows 10 on your primary PC. Use a test computer <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/196060/beginner-geek-how-to-create-and-use-virtual-machines/" style="color: #114491;">or a virtual machine</a>. If you absolutely must install Windows 10 on your regular computer, we highly recommend <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/223139/how-to-create-an-image-of-your-pc-before-upgrading-to-windows-10/" style="color: #114491;">creating a system image of your entire computer</a> in case you want to easily revert back.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="font-size: 14.82px;">I</b><span style="font-size: 14.82px;">f you haven’t installed Windows 10 on your PC before, you’ll have to</span><span style="font-size: 14.82px;"> </span><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/" style="color: #114491; font-size: 14.82px;">perform an upgrade first before you can clean install.</a><span style="font-size: 14.82px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.82px;">If this doesn’t make any sense, that’s because Microsoft never makes licensing easy, even when there’s a free version. Once you’ve performed the upgrade and activated your Windows 10 upgrade on a PC, Microsoft will associate your unique hardware ID with an activated Windows 10 license, and you can reinstall as you see fit. But not until you’ve upgraded Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 and then activated.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Just keep in mind that Windows 10 is only provided for free as an <em>upgrade</em>. You can’t clean install it, there are no keys at this point. Unless <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/" style="color: #114491;">you use our clean install workaround</a>.</div> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px;">Step 1: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO" style="color: #114491;">Download the Windows 10 ISO image</a> from Microsoft’s web site. Alternatively you can download the web installer from the same page and just choose to upgrade your PC, which is the easiest option.</li> <li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px;">Step 2: If you are installing on a regular PC with Windows already on it, you’ll be prompted immediately to start the upgrade process. Alternatively, you can <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14183/beginner-geek-how-to-burn-an-iso-image-to-a-disc/" style="color: #114491;">burn it to an optical disk</a> or<a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/191054/how-to-create-bootable-usb-drives-and-sd-cards-for-every-operating-system/" style="color: #114491;">create a bootable USB flash drive</a>. Otherwise, just attach the ISO image using the <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/196060/beginner-geek-how-to-create-and-use-virtual-machines/" style="color: #114491;">virtual machine software</a> of your choice (assuming your virtual machine already has Windows 7 or 8 installed).</li> <li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px;">Step 3: Install it mostly by clicking the Next button, making sure to choose Upgrade when prompted. If you want to clean install, follow our <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/" style="color: #114491;">clean install instructions instead</a>.</li> <li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px;">Note: Now that Windows 10 is released, you’re going to <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/206329/how-to-find-your-lost-windows-or-office-product-keys/" style="color: #114491;">need a valid Windows license key for 7, 8, or 8.1</a> in order to perform the upgrade.</li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> For posterity, here are all of the installation steps if you’re booting from a flash drive, although you could just remember the word “Next” and get through it fine. Just remember to choose Upgrade when prompted unless you’ve previously upgraded and activated Windows 10 on this computer.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> When you first boot the computer you’ll see a screen like this one:</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197562" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c294a4e752.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.wBE612-_qh.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Click Next and you’ll be taken to the Install now button screen. Which obviously you should click.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197563" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c29587ee2f.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.hH5gvOhySC.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> At this point you can choose whether you want to upgrade Windows or install a new custom install. Since we’re recommending that everybody install into a virtual machine or on a test PC, you should select Custom here.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-weight: 600;">Update:</span> You should probably choose to Upgrade the first time, because the license key might not work otherwise.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197564" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c29621f9a4.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.AY4S2zwVFz.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> At this point you’ll need to pick where to install Windows 10. You might need to delete or create a partition, but if you are using a virtual machine, you can just click Next.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197565" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c296992937.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.8ipfYbXjgX.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> And now it will install.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197560" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c28e599f7b.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.bw-Zn4NbIO.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Once the PC reboots again, you’ll be able to select the settings like whether Windows Updates are enabled (they aren’t allowed to be disabled in the preview). We’d recommend just using the express settings if you are using a test machine — use Custom if you’re really going to use the computer.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197566" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c2992e275c.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.zIuaqHtS5m.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> And now you can sign into your Microsoft account. We’d recommend using a Microsoft account because otherwise you won’t be able to use half of the new features and you may as well use Linux or stick with Windows 7.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197567" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c29b4dde84.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.-w-WLVsGiY.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> If you’ve setup your account properly you’ll probably be asked to verify it in the middle. We excluded those steps from this article, but they are pretty simple.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Now you’ll be asked how to setup the PC. Since we wanted to test everything as a new computer, we chose to set it up as a new PC instead, but you could copy all your settings from another computer if you wanted to.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197569" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c2a2572769.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.xjs3wTtTsE.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Want to use OneDrive? It’s nicely integrated into Windows, so we just left it alone.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197570" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c2a3a14dce.png.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.P6GX0ab8w0.png" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> And now a colorful screen that tells us things are happening.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197571" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c2a81ada61.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.8UCR3deoDb.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> And finally, we are at the desktop! Note that the desktop on the full release of Windows 10 looks different, and this screenshot came from a pre-release version.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197573" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ximg_542c2adc232b3.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.fHhfHQaq9t.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin-left: -2px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.82px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding: 0px;"> Now click that Start button. Click it. You know you want to.</div> </div>

How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC

Before you decide to upgrade your computer, you might want to decide  whether or not you actually want to install Windows 10 . It’s not n...

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